Chef Dan Thiessen is the chef and co-owner of 0/8 Seafood Grill and Twisted Cork Wine bar. A natural philanthropist, he regularly donates his time to local charities and events such as Farestart. He also has his own radio show, What’s Cooking with Chef Dan on KVI Talk Radio 570 where he answers questions and offers cooking advice and tips. …

I once had an ex-boyfriend who would run out of the kitchen every time I microwaved something. It was the microwave run. I would place my hand on the microwave door and within seconds he would be running out of the kitchen. Where would he be? He would be sitting on the sofa blabbing on his cell phone. …

Hotdogs. Either you love them or you hate them. I think it’s the ritual for the hotdog that’s fun. The fact that you can drown it in green, yellow and red oozing stuff. It’s like playing with all the candy in the world except the you are bypassing the food coloring. One sec. I will check the relish. No food coloring, turmeric for color. Mustard, pretty healthy. The ketchup. Dum de Dum Dum! No food coloring but high fructose corn syrup. Nasty! …

Oroweat is having a promotion. They show up at a different location every day. They are selling a burger, chips( the kettle kind) and a bottle of water for 3 dollars. The money goes to charity. Today I caught them right outside of Wall-mart. They had bison burgers. They also had a wheel that you can spin and win prizes. I won post -its. There are much better prizes. I peeked and noticed some kind of grill brush or grill something. …

Yesterday morning I went to Whole Foods at 8 A.M. I needed some food inspiration. Of course it was open on the 4th of July, it is always open. The people practically sleep there. The people always have cheery faces there, no matter what time of the day it is. I wondered to myself: Is there some type of fruit that they eat that contains vitamins that makes everyone extra nice and unnaturally happy? Did they discover a top secret Prozac that is available only to the Whole Foods employees? Then I remembered the cookie chunks that they always put out for everyone to try. That’s it! They start their day testing the sugar cookies in the morning, leaving them with an endless sugar high. I don’t care what makes the people so nice but Whole Foods is probably the only place I will shop within the first few crabby hours of the day. …